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Unlocking the Power of Competency Management

Competency Management is a critical aspect of workforce capability management, ensuring that employees possess the right skills, knowledge, and behaviors to perform their roles effectively. Whether you are just starting with competency management or looking to enhance an existing program, this resource center provides you with a wealth of evidence based resources including crafting role-specific models, assessment methods, closing capability gaps and measuring ROI.

What is Competency Management?

Competency Management is the process of defining, assessing, and developing the skills and knowledge required for various job roles within an organization. It ensures that employees have the capabilities needed to perform effectively in their current roles and to grow into future roles.

Key Benefits of Competency Management

Align workforce capabilities with organizational goals.
Improve employee performance and productivity.
Identify skill gaps and guide targeted training initiatives.
Support career development and succession planning.
Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.

How to Implement Competency Management

Define Competencies: Identify the essential skills, knowledge, and behaviors for each job role.
Map Competencies to Roles: Align each role with the relevant competencies.
Assess Competencies: Use self-assessments, manager evaluations, and 360-degree feedback to measure employee competency levels.
Analyze Competency Gaps: Identify areas where employees need development.
Develop Skills: Provide targeted learning and development programs.
Monitor and Review: Regularly review and update competency profiles to align with organizational changes.

Explore Our Comprehensive Competency Management Resources

Below, and at right you will find a collection of evidence based, detailed competency management resources covering all aspects. Click on the links to explore.

What is a Competency?

The competency concept has many different definitions. We review the emergence of the concept and the different ways it is used. We look at the different types of competencies, competency models and why using competency is an essential business tool.

How to develop Competency Models – free guide

In depth review of how to set up competency models. From the most simple to the most complex. Read More

How to define a competency

Competency statements that work. Free ebook

How to structure competency statements for different purposes. Avoiding the pitfalls that can cause inaccurate assessments. Download

Critical Thinking Skills

Complete competency definition for the modern workplace

Key elements – Interpretation, Analysis, Evaluation, Reasoning, Self Reflection

Get the details of each – free download

Competency Assessment – Best practices – free Guide

Everything you need to know about competency assessment – how to avoid common mistakes and ensure valid assessments. Read More

Competency Management Business Case

10 reasons you need a competency management system

Competency Management – done right – is the fundamental building block of people strategy. Read More

What is a Core Competency?

The origin of the concept of Core Competencies together with examples and notes on their use. Read More

How to Use Core Competencies to shape Organizational Culture

A core competency framework is an essential tool in people management. Some key questions are whether to use a generic vendor provided proprietary competency library, or define your own, and how then to assess core competencies. We cover these questions and the 5 key steps to defining valid core competencies. Learn More

What is a Competency Model?

A competency model is a list or catalogue of competencies identified by an organization to demonstrate its values, to ensure staff work together to support the organizational goals and ensure successful job performance at the individual level. The use of competency models is a strategic imperative for organizations of size and complexity. Read More

Competency and its impact on Risk Management

It is well accepted that people are the most important element in an organization’s success – the corollary is that they are also its biggest risk. Since job knowledge and skill are the best predictor of successful performance Competency Management tools are indispensable for organizational risk management. Read More

Competency versus Performance – the difference

Competency and Performance are widely used terms in Human Resources that have no commonly accepted meaning. This confuses organizational staff as well as the processes used in people management. Our model sets out a clear evidence based relationship that can be used for HR process design. Read More

Certification versus Competence

We assume that a certification means that the holder is competent in the subject of the certificate – unfortunately this is often not the case. There are several key reasons.. Read More

Competence or Competency

As with so many terms in Talent Management there is confusion between ‘Competence’ and ‘Competency’. Are they the same or are they different concepts? and how should they be used? Read More

Employee Engagement & Leadership Competency

Surveys consistently show staff in many organizations are not highly engaged. There is some association between engagement and organizational success. Leadership competency is also an area of concern. This is not coincidental. There is a close link. Read More